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DECISION
regarding the
Final Declaration

Meher Baba

 
This universe has come out of God. God has not come out of the universe. Illusion has come out of Reality. Reality has not come out of illusion. God alone is Real; the universe by itself is illusion.

God's Life lived in illusion, as the Avatar and as Perfect Masters, is not illusory, whereas God's Life lived in creation, as all animate and inanimate beings, is both real and illusory. Illusion, illusory life and God's Life in illusion are not and cannot be one and the same. Illusion has no life and can have no life. Illusion is illusion, and is nothing by itself. Illusory life means life in illusion, and though it is life, as experienced by the Soul in creation, it is illusory life. But God's Life lived in illusion is not illusory because, in spite of living the illusory life, God remains conscious of His own Reality.

God is absolutely independent, and the universe is entirely dependent upon God. Yet when the Perfect Masters effect the "descent" of God on earth as the Avatar, they make Reality and illusion interdependent, each upon the other. And thus it is that His Infinite Mercy and Unbounded Love are eternally drawn upon by those who are immersed in illusion.

Between God and the universe, Infinite Mercy and Unbounded Love act as a prominent link which is eternally made use of by men who become God (Sadgurus, Perfect Masters or Qutubs), and by God Who becomes Man (Avatar, the Christ, the Rasool); so the universe becomes the eternal playmate of God. Through this prominent link, the Avatar not only established life in his Divine Play, but also established Law in illusion. And this Law being established by the God-Man or Avatar is the Law of the lawless Infinite, and it is eternally real and at the same time illusory. It is this Law that governs the universe; all its ups and downs, construction and devastation are guided by this Law.

At this cyclic period, God's independent Absoluteness is made to work upon this Law by the God-Man as God's Will. This means that anything and everything that the Avatar wills is ordained by God. Consequently, all that I stated in the Final Declaration and Confirmation is ordained by God, and must and will happen.

I was in Khuldabad for nearly a week from the 22nd of March. There, night and day, I did my work most intensively. The intensity of my spiritual work caused great pressure on my physical body and mind, and it was there that I decided that all that I had declared in my Final Declaration must come to pass exactly in the same sequence and with the same intensity of effect, but with modification in the time factor. Therefore, with change in the time limit, the intensity, scope, shape and size of the chain of events will take place without any moderation whatsoever, to bring into effect the destined plan.

In the meantime, mankind must await, as it must according to my Final Decision, the witnessing of all that is to come to pass as ordained by God. This is the time when man must love God more and more. Let him live for God and let him die for God. In all his thoughts, in all his words and in all his actions, love for God alone must prevail.

 

LORD MEHER, 1st USA ed, vol. 13 & 14, pp. 4606-4607, Bhau Kalchuri
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